Jansing v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
July 1981
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Spencer v. Levy · County of Calhoun v. Wilson · City of Corpus Christi v. McCarver · Markgraf v. Salem Cemetery Ass'n
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.. . nor shall any person ever acquire, by occupancy or adverse possession, any right or title to any part or portion of any road, street, alley, sidewalk, or grounds which belong to any town, city, or county, or which have been donated or dedicated for public use to any such town, city, or county by the owner thereof, or which have been laid out or dedicated in any manner to public use in any town, city, or county in this State. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellis v. Jansing
How this case has been treated — in progress
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